There is a reason why Cao Cao hated the Han army's intelligence organization in Cao Wei so much, and during the Hefei War the year before last, Xianbei envoys came to Cao Wei and offered to exchange cattle and sheep for pig iron, but there was no news again.

It wasn't until Xianbei sent someone to question again, Cao Cao didn't know that the messenger was missing in Youzhou, he ordered Cao Zhang to look around, and finally found the body of the Xianbei messenger in an abandoned waterswing lane, after careful investigation, he learned from the mouth of the post station steward that someone pretended to be Cao Zhang's cavalry and deceived the Xianbei messenger, which was undoubtedly a spy of the Han army.

The spies of the Han army were so effective that Cao Cao felt threatened, and the spies of the Han army were no longer as simple as spying on intelligence, but would also assassinate and sabotage in an organized manner, and if they were not eradicated in time, they would cause great trouble.

Cao Cao saw that his son Cao Pi seemed a little absent-minded, so he snorted again, "Did you hear me?" ”

Cao Pi was indeed a little distracted, he was thinking about how to tell his father about Ding Ling, his father's reprimand made him excited, and he hurriedly bowed his head and said: "The child heard it, and he will immediately start arranging." ”

Cao Cao looked at his son for a moment, and he saw that his son had something on his mind, so he asked, "Do you have anything to say to your father?" ”

"The child had an important matter that he wanted to report to his father."

"Don't spit out, what's the matter?"

Cao Pi had no choice but to take out his report and present it to his father, "Please take a look at it!" ”

Cao Cao took the report and read it, and his brows couldn't help frowning, "Have so many people resigned?" ”

"Father, this is only Hebei, as well as Bingzhou and the Central Plains, and the child is worried that the wave of resignations will intensify."

"Humph! Does that threaten me? ”

Cao Cao disdainfully said to Cao Pi: "There are many people who want to be officials, and they select young talents from Taixue, and just take this opportunity to replace the local government controlled by these families." ”

Cao Pi was stunned, how could his father be so careless, he hurriedly said: "Father, things are not so simple, they will still provoke the people to rebel"

"You fool!"

The anger that Cao Cao had just suppressed burned again, and he slapped the table and scolded, "Don't you just want me to compromise and give up the Ding Order?" I'm a dying person, is it necessary to do such an offending thing? It's not all for you, it's for the descendants of Cao Wei! ”

Cao Pi knelt down again, "Father, please be angry, please be angry, the child is not so unbearable!" ”

Cao Cao only felt dizzy in his head, he leaned against the screen behind him, slowly closed his eyes, and after a long time, he slowly asked, "How much is the government's annual tax now?" ”

"Back to my father, about five million stones."

"Then we now have 300,000 troops, according to the calculation that each soldier consumes 12 stone of grain a year, our annual military food needs 3.6 million stone, and we also need to consider the destruction of rats and insects, after the 5 million stone official food is exchanged for military food, how much food will be paid for the officials, as well as daily consumption, and relief for the victims, have you calculated this account?"

"Father, we can use Juntun."

Cao Cao sighed softly, "Pi'er, the Han army does not have a military tun, the army tuntian has a great impact on training, I estimate that there will be a war next year, if you don't strengthen army training, what will you do to fight the Han army?" If there is not enough grain in stock, how long can the war last, Pi'er, have you forgotten the lessons of the Hefei War? ”

"Children must not forget jì."

"You are in charge of government affairs, you should understand why I am in a hurry to implement the Ding Order, there is no yeoman farmers, there is not enough food, these scholars have stored a lot of food, hit them, we can get military food reserves in the short term, and in the long term, we will have stable financial resources, it can be described as killing two birds with one stone, as for their resistance and dissatisfaction, it is inevitable, and there is nothing to negotiate, if they want to resist, they will be suppressed, if they want to surrender to the Han State, then let them be, as long as the foundation that supports us is not shaken, nothing else matters."

Cao Pi originally wanted to build yì father to properly implement the Ding order among the powerful to balance the dissatisfaction of the scholars, but his father's last sentence made him dare not say it again, and after a while, he had to say helplessly: "Father, the child is not worried about the vacancy of local officials, as his father said, young scholars can be appointed from Taixue, but the child is worried about the officials of Yedu, and after the New Year, the officials of Yedu generally do not complete the set goals, and the government operation is slow, and the officials feel very negative, and they have to get by, and the child is very worried about the adjustment of official positions in April. It will cause a wave of resignations from officials in Yedu, and I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with. ”

"Do you know why this is happening?"

Cao Cao sneered: "Last autumn, the officialdom was cleaned up too ruthlessly, and the troubles were gradually exposed. ”

Cao Pi originally planned to slowly lead to the Ding Ling, after all, many officials were born in the scholar family, or protégés of several major families, and the local government was too far away, so he wanted to use Yedu officials to talk about things, but he didn't expect his father to pull out the case of Jian'an's seven sons in the autumn of last year, which really made Cao Pi a little embarrassed.

"Father, not really!"

"What do you mean by not, people's hearts are flesh and blood, so many innocent people have been unjustly killed, do you think others will forget it? What happened in Yedu now is related to the clean-up of officialdom last year. ”

Cao Pi didn't dare to refute, he secretly hated in his heart, it was clear that the case of Jian'an's seven sons was tacitly approved by his father, and now his father pushed the responsibility on his head, which made him very depressed.

At this time, Cao Cao was silent for a moment and said: "Last year, in the case of Jian'an's seven sons, many officials died innocently, someone must come out to take responsibility, and give an explanation to the officials of Yedu, I will take Yang Tian as a knife, there are too many people who hate him, and putting the responsibility on him can also alleviate the dissatisfaction in the hearts of Yedu officials."

Cao Pi suddenly jumped out of his mind, 'The cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks', and now Yang Tian is the lackey who wants to cook and kill, although Yang Tian is his right-hand man, but his father has decided to do something to him, Cao Pi doesn't want to stop it anymore, so he nodded slowly, "Follow my father's order!" ”

"Go ahead! Dig up the intelligence points of the Han army for me as soon as possible. ”

Cao Pi saluted, slowly retreated, Cao Cao's eyes fell on Jiaozhou intelligence again, he sighed long, the so-called internal and external troubles, he now deeply understands that the Han army attacked Jiaozhou, leaving him little time, he either made a compromise on the Ding order, or implemented more violently, in any case, he had to store two million stone military rations before the end of the year to deal with the risk of war next year

Yang Tian's worst fear still happened, that night, hundreds of elite tiger guards surrounded his mansion, grabbed Yang Tian out of the quilt, Shi Zhonghua Xin read out the investigation order to him, impeached him for corruption and bending the law, and removed him from his post as the imperial historian on the spot, without waiting for Yang Tian to cry out, the tiger-wolf guards grabbed him into the iron cage carriage and drove towards the Dali Temple Prison.

The news of the arrest of Yang Tian came out the next morning, and the government and the opposition were suddenly jubilant, and the whole Ye was also boiling, and the families who had been killed by Yang Tian lit firecrackers one after another to celebrate the day of raising their eyebrows.

Cao Pi didn't expect that the arrest of Yang Tian would have such a huge effect, so he had to admire his father's old spiciness, and arrested Yang Tian to save the scene at a critical moment, thus greatly alleviating the depressing atmosphere in the officialdom.

However, Cao Pi is not easy, yesterday his father pressed down two tasks, one is to find out the truth about the destruction of the Han army in Jiaozhou, he has sent his henchmen to rush to Panyu, this problem is not big, his father did not give him a deadline, but the other task made it a little difficult for him to dig out the intelligence organization of the Han army in Cao Wei.

Of course, Cao Pi knew that the Han army had secret agents in Yedu and other places, and had formed a huge intelligence network, but it was not easy to dig out this intelligence network, and he had been trying to find the intelligence points of the Han army, but he had never found anything.

Last summer, his subordinates cracked a secret organization, originally thought it was the intelligence point of the Han army, but it was the remnants of the Yuan family, which disappointed him very much, and now his father wants him to dig out the intelligence network of the Han army, where should he start?

Cao Pi paced back and forth in the official room with his hands in his hands, this task was originally handed over to Yang Tian to do, and now that Yang Tian has been arrested, he has to change someone, so who is more suitable to change?

Just thinking about it, a report from the guards came from outside the door: "Qi Qi Shizi, Dali Cheng Zhou Yuan has an urgent matter to see!" ”

Zhou Yuan is the second person in Dali Temple, and also one of Cao Pi's capable generals, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, born in the army, once served as Cao Ren's marching Sima, shrewd and capable, even Cao Cao praised him, this time Yang Tian's case is he in charge of the trial.

Cao Pi perked up and hurriedly ordered: "Bring him in!" ”

After a while, Zhou Yuan, who was dressed in official uniform, walked in, bowed and saluted: "See the prince!" ”

"What's the good news for Zhou Envoy?"

Zhou Yuan stepped forward and whispered a few words, Cao Pi was stunned, "Can this matter be taken seriously?" ”

Zhou Yuan nodded, "He admitted it himself." ”

Cao Pi immediately gritted his teeth with hatred, "This damn guy who eats inside and out, he really deserves a thousand cuts!" ”

He immediately put on a robe and said to Zhou Yuan: "Take me to Dali Temple Prison quickly!" ”

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